The Register reports that by 2010 (only three more years) half of all British black males will be included in the police DNA database.
Government figures show there are 244,695 black British males on the DNA database, said the Libdems in a statement today. Using government estimates that there will be 4.5 million people on the DNA database in three years, official predictions of population growth and ethnicity, the Libdems have predicted that there will be 288,652 black males on the database.
That’s 51.9 per cent of black males and 68 per cent of black males of an “arrestable age”.
There is, already, 45 per cent of the black British male population on the DNA database, according to the Libdem numbers.
The fact that the technology is neutral (a questionable assertion at best) does not mean that the effects of the uses of technology will be fair and equitable.